13 Sep 2019

The interesting and slightly unusual world of Bruckner

From Upbeat, 1:00 pm on 13 September 2019

Michael Vinten would have to be one of this country’s more versatile and in-demand musicians.

Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner Photo: Ferry Bératon [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

He’s a composer and a conductor and is very well-known in opera, including leading the New Zealand Opera Chorus.

Next Sunday, the 22nd, he’ll be conducting the Wellington Chamber Orchestra in a programme including a rarely heard variant of Bruckner’s Symphony No 3.

He speaks to David Morriss about the interesting and slightly unusual world of Bruckner.